Gift Planning

Gift Planning benefitting you and LCMS

Enhance your legacy to your family and continue your legacy supporting God's mission through the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Through a planned gift to the LCMS, enabled by a LCMS Foundation Gift Planner, you may:

Increase your annual income

Eliminate capital gains tax on assets

Gift the most appropriate/favorable assets to heirs and to the ministry you love

Receive a significant tax deduction

Lower your potential estate tax

Assure the transfer of your fullest possible estate value to heirs

Increase possible gifts to heirs and grandchildren

The easiest gift – designating LCMS as a beneficiary

Perhaps the easiest way to leave your legacy, sharing the Gospel, through your Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod is by including the LCMS as a designated beneficiary or contingent beneficiary of your: